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Freelance Software Engineer interested in computational biology / *omics 🧬. Working on https://benthos.dev, the #golang structured data stream processor. All things Open Source. Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 He / Him.
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Zelensky is a hero by any sensible measure. A leader inspiring his nation in the midst of an invasion by a powerful, repressive dictatorship. The fact that any American can think of him as the bad guy just demonstrates the triumph of tribalism over principle.

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Mindscape 306 | Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social on Our Energetic Oceans. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Didn't expect my comment to make it into the Sifted article, but grateful it did! Just yesterday I attended #Munich #Innovation Ecosystem meetup, and they seem to be completely unaware that the startups are moving our from #Germany, and that its impossible to start a company as a foreigner here

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Mindscape Bonus Episode | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter. I try to lay things out in a way that would be informative to partisans on both sides of the spectrum (with my own views perfectly evident). #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

-324 votes and counting: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40...

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Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition www.openculture.com/2025/02/carl...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing! Didn't expect to listen to Jim Allison on my favourite podcast. Thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for making this happen! ❤️

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On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

submitted 34 days ago • 101 comments

Ash talked again about Benthos, data streaming, open source software, getting acquired and next steps (for almost 2 hours this time!): changelog.com/podcast/625

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Mindscape 302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution. Even squishy organisms are subject to the fundamental laws of nature. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Mindscape 301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability. If we're all just vectors in a huge dataset, might as well turn it to our advantage. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

I've just announced my new (blazing-fast) kernel for implicit surfaces: mattkeeter.com/projects/fid... It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers! After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

This Small Data video is hilarious!

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Mindscape 300 | Solo: Does Time Exist? (Spoiler: yes, it does.) Celebrating another click of the podcast odometer with a solo episode, talking about quantum mechanics, gravity, and time. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

submitted 56 days ago • 18 comments

It was hilarious to see this happen in one of the biggest Fortune 500 companies. Various executives replying with "unsubscribe me" and such 😅

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

True story: there are humans out there who insert lies into the organizational bloodstream just to see the reaction. They call this pressure testing, and these humans are jerks.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

It’s nice to get a bit of quiet time to focus on long-overdue tasks that kept piling up over the past months. They don’t require a ton of effort, but I just couldn’t push myself to get to them after spending most of my days on tedious work items that I had to do.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

submitted 68 days ago • 163 comments

I’ve been programming for… 25 years? And I feel like I keep on making the same mistakes. Not because I’m not better at it, but because the mistakes are a result of me, of my personality, of my anxiety, of my laziness, of my inability to let shit go. Me. Not tech. Not skill. Not experience. Just me.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

I found the perfect Scooby snack: candied papaya. I know, I know, it has loads of sugar, so I only buy 100g or so and don't eat it in one go...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment